Oxford - Miami University's music ensembles take the stage in fall
2012 at one of the most prestigious venues in the world - Carnegie Hall. It is expected
that 350 students will participate, with students from virtually all-academic majors
represented.

Miami's School of Fine Arts and the department of music recently signed an agreement
to give a featured performance. Groups slated to perform include the Chamber Singers,
Choraliers, Collegiate Chorale, Men's Glee Club, Miami University Symphony Orchestra,
and the Miami University Wind Ensemble.

Music ensembles will perform in a special all-Miami University concert at 2 p.m. Sunday,
Oct. 7, in Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, which seats 2,804. Ticket availability and
other details will be announced as plans develop.

Plans are in motion for a "Miami University Weekend in New York" that will include a
special menu of activities culminating with the Carnegie Hall performance.

James Lentini, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said, "This is a wonderful opportunity
for a celebration that includes the whole university, and we are crafting plans to make
this a major event for all Miami University alumni and friends. I congratulate the
faculty, staff, and students of the department of music, whose continued commitment
to excellence has allowed this opportunity to come to life."

The department of music at Miami is listed as one of 25 "Strongest Programs" nationwide
among all colleges (public and private) by the 2012 Fiske Guide to Colleges, and boasts
successful graduates that include conductor Steven Reineke of the New York Pops.

Oxford - The Miami University Symphony Orchestra (MUSO)
invited the Great Miami Youth Symphony over to Miami University-Oxford for an hour
of joint music making and a bit of pizza on Monday, April 18.

And over they came. Over 75 high school musicians, under the direction of
Paul Stanbery spent the late afternoon hobnobbing with
members of the MUSO and MU music faculty and sitting down together to rehearse and play together under the
batons of Stanbery and MUSO director Ricardo Averbach.

"It was a great experience for us all," said Dorian Mohar, MUSO's principal trumpet.
"The GMYO players had a chance to play alongside more seasoned players, and we had the opportunity
to meet and work with musicians with the same aspirations we had when we were in their shoes a
few years ago."

The joint ensemble worked on Variations on a Shaker Melody by Aaron Copland, the
English Folk Song Suite of Ralph Vaughn Williams, and American Salute by Morton Gould.

The day after the event, Stanbery wrote in a note to music department chair
Judith Delzell that
"the music making was grand, and the connection between my kids, Miami students, and the tremendous
turn out of the music department faculty was special. The goal, to make the music department - and
especially the orchestra - a familiar and welcoming place for my kids was met 'in spades'."

From the Miam University Department of Music Web Site
February 24, 2011
The Miami University Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of
Ricardo Averbach, was in the spotlight February 19-20 as the host orchestra for the 2011
regional conference of the College Orchestra Directors Association (CODA) held on the MU-Oxford campus.

Organized by Averbach, president of CODA's Northeast Division, the event hosted several sessions
on performance practice, a retrospective on the legacy of conductor Max Rudolph, and several
sessions on surviving and thriving in the current economic and technological environment in which we live.

"Of all the regional conferences (I have attended), this was by far the best," writes
conductor Jonathan Mitchell of Boston College, adding to a host of laudatory comments from other
attendees. Accolades from Northern Kentucky University's Frank Resteran referenced Averbach's
work as the organizer and musician, writing "...you are to be commended for your excellent
organizational skill in addition to the highest level of musicianship and artistry that you
always show. Your program is now a model to me. BRAVO!"

From Dr. Mark Hartman of Shippensburg University (Pennsylvania) came this note:

"I would like to let all know that the conference last weekend at Miami University
was a great time. I want to applaud Ricardo Averbach for his efforts in making it useful
and user-friendly, and people centered. It was also great to meet new people that are both
serious professionals and warm human beings."

MUSO concert.A major highlight of the conference was the performance on
Saturday evening by the MUSO, which included Iphigenia in Aulis Overture (Gluck/Wagner);
Moldau by Smetana, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No. 2; Gypsy Airs
(Zigeunerweisen), by Sarasate, featuring guest violinist Daniel Guedes, and the premiere
performance* of The Insects' Martyrdom by Heitor Villa-Lobos, using a newly published
critical edition produced by Averbach under a grant from Miami University's Office for the
Advancement of Research and Scholarship (OARS). Of the concert, Patricia Sparti of Gardner-Webb
University wrote "FABULOUS CONCERT AND BRAVO TO YOU!!!!" (caps and exclamation points hers).

The conference brought to Miami University more than 30 college orchestra maestros from as far
away as Utah, Texas, and Massachusetts.

Click here for complete comments sent in by attendees of the conference.Click here for the YouTube video of this performance.

MUSO to collaborate with Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony

September 10, 2010The Miami University Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ricardo
Averbach, will give a joint performance with the Hamilton-Fairfield
Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Paul Stanbery,
at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Hall Auditorium. This is the first time that the Miami University
Symphony Orchestra combines with a professional orchestra for a concert.

(From the Miami University e-report, 9/2/2010) - Ricardo Averbach,
associate professor of music and director of orchestral studies at Miami University, was
awarded the First Honor Diploma at this year's Masterplayers International Music Competition.

Oxford - The Oxford Chamber Orchestra (OCO), under the direction
of Ricardo Averbach, and consisting of students and faculty at Miami University, has taken
second place in the American Prize Competition, it was announced this week by the event's leadership.

Oxford - Maestro Ricardo Averbach, director of orchestral studies
at Miami University and president of the College Orchestra Directors Association, Northeast
division, has won The American Prize in Conducting in the college/university orchestra division.
Averbach, at Miami since 2002, conducts the Miami University Symphony Orchestra and the Oxford
Chamber Orchestra. He was one of 19 finalists for the prize.